Actor George MacKay has reunited with his “For Those in Peril” director Paul Wright for “Mission.”
Backed by BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the U.K. National Lottery, “Mission” is a co-production between Early Day Films (BAFTA winner “Bait”) and 65 Wilding Films (“Baltimore”). The project was developed with Screen Scotland and BBC Film.
The producers describe “Mission” as “a punk exploration of the psyche which follows alienated Dylan (MacKay) as he throws off the shackles of his solitary life in an attempt to experience the highs and lows of existence at its most extreme, embarking on a thrilling journey of self-discovery that proves both inspiring and terrifying.”
Blue Finch Films will be handling worldwide sales on the project.
“Mission” is produced by Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Early Day Films), Alex Thiele (65 Wilding Films), Marie-Elena Dyche (Meraki Films) and Lowri Roberts (Rapt), with Maisie Williams...
Backed by BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the U.K. National Lottery, “Mission” is a co-production between Early Day Films (BAFTA winner “Bait”) and 65 Wilding Films (“Baltimore”). The project was developed with Screen Scotland and BBC Film.
The producers describe “Mission” as “a punk exploration of the psyche which follows alienated Dylan (MacKay) as he throws off the shackles of his solitary life in an attempt to experience the highs and lows of existence at its most extreme, embarking on a thrilling journey of self-discovery that proves both inspiring and terrifying.”
Blue Finch Films will be handling worldwide sales on the project.
“Mission” is produced by Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Early Day Films), Alex Thiele (65 Wilding Films), Marie-Elena Dyche (Meraki Films) and Lowri Roberts (Rapt), with Maisie Williams...
- 5/9/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The tragic passing of Ray Chan recently made news around the world. A highly respected Hollywood artist, Chan was best known for being an art director in the production design department at Marvel Studios. Some of his most memorable credits include Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, and Doctor Strange.
A host of people who had worked with Chan in the past took to social media to express their sorrow at his passing. This includes Ryan Reynolds, who was collaborating with Chan on the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine at the time of the latter’s passing. Reynolds took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his feelings over Chan’s demise in a heartfelt note that is being appreciated by fans of the actor and of the MCU.
Becoming A Part Of The MCU Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Hopkins in Thor: The Dark World
Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in...
A host of people who had worked with Chan in the past took to social media to express their sorrow at his passing. This includes Ryan Reynolds, who was collaborating with Chan on the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine at the time of the latter’s passing. Reynolds took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his feelings over Chan’s demise in a heartfelt note that is being appreciated by fans of the actor and of the MCU.
Becoming A Part Of The MCU Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Hopkins in Thor: The Dark World
Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in...
- 4/28/2024
- by Neeraj Chand
- FandomWire
Starz has announced the movies and TV shows that will be available on the service in May. The Starz May 2024 schedule includes the finales of the limited series Mary & George and season three of Bmf.
On the film front, Starz is the exclusive streaming home to the latest installment in The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which joins the Starz app this month along with several other notable titles, including Outlaw Johnny Black, Manodrome, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Silent Night, and Nope.
Starz continues to be the home for franchise favorites with Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge, as well as Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Little Fockers all joining the Starz app this month.
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with an Aquaphobia movie marathon on Starz Encore, beginning Saturday, May 25, at 7:00 p.m. with aquatic thrillers such as Jaws,...
On the film front, Starz is the exclusive streaming home to the latest installment in The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which joins the Starz app this month along with several other notable titles, including Outlaw Johnny Black, Manodrome, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Silent Night, and Nope.
Starz continues to be the home for franchise favorites with Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge, as well as Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Little Fockers all joining the Starz app this month.
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with an Aquaphobia movie marathon on Starz Encore, beginning Saturday, May 25, at 7:00 p.m. with aquatic thrillers such as Jaws,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
The UK’s Screen Cornwall has revealed the first four recipients of its feature film development scheme for projects in the Cornish language, Kernewek, made by local creative talent.
Callum Mitchell, who was the assistant director on Mark Jenkin’s Bait and Enys Men, has written Lanow (Rising Tide). A 10-year-old and his loving father, victims of a devastating housing crisis, treasure one last summer together in a place they call home. Simon Nicholls of Spike Productions produces.
Dedhyow Tesen (Cake Days) follows a young woman is determined to help her terminally ill father complete his bucket list before it’s too late,...
Callum Mitchell, who was the assistant director on Mark Jenkin’s Bait and Enys Men, has written Lanow (Rising Tide). A 10-year-old and his loving father, victims of a devastating housing crisis, treasure one last summer together in a place they call home. Simon Nicholls of Spike Productions produces.
Dedhyow Tesen (Cake Days) follows a young woman is determined to help her terminally ill father complete his bucket list before it’s too late,...
- 4/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
Let’s face it: The MCU has been in a rut and Ryan Reynolds has stepped into the pit of ruins with Deadpool & Wolverine, ready to turn the studio around into a Wrexham-style victory. As the honorary adoptive father of strays, losers, and underdogs, the fans are in no place to refuse the actor his benevolent decision to take up “Saving the MCU” as his next passion project.
Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine [Credit: Walt Disney Pictures]While Reynolds legally declares himself as Marvel Jesus, the fans wait in high anticipation as the Merc With a Mouth arrives armed and ready to perform a miracle and resurrect the dying universe. MCU fans, in the meanwhile, have given up all pretense of shame and desperation and have taken to chanting Deadpool 3‘s name in the hopes that it might ultimately save the Marvel universe.
Deadpool & Wolverine Shows Cause for MCU Resurrection?...
Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine [Credit: Walt Disney Pictures]While Reynolds legally declares himself as Marvel Jesus, the fans wait in high anticipation as the Merc With a Mouth arrives armed and ready to perform a miracle and resurrect the dying universe. MCU fans, in the meanwhile, have given up all pretense of shame and desperation and have taken to chanting Deadpool 3‘s name in the hopes that it might ultimately save the Marvel universe.
Deadpool & Wolverine Shows Cause for MCU Resurrection?...
- 4/23/2024
- by Diya Majumdar
- FandomWire
Although Phoebe Tonkin was in the 2012 shark thriller Bait and the high profile 2022 flop Babylon, most viewers probably know her from her work in television: she has been on multiple episodes H2O: Just Add Water, Home and Away, The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Westworld, Safe Harbour, and more. I just finished watching a Netflix series she was in, Boy Swallows Universe, which I thought was pretty great. Now Tonkin has the lead role in a thriller called Night Shift, which just received a VOD and limited theatrical release today, courtesy of Quiver Distribution. To help you figure out whether or not Night Shift is a movie you’d like to see, we have a clip and the film’s trailer embedded above.
Written and directed by Paul China and Benjamin China, a.k.a. The China Brothers, Night Shift has the following synopsis: While working her first...
Written and directed by Paul China and Benjamin China, a.k.a. The China Brothers, Night Shift has the following synopsis: While working her first...
- 3/8/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
We’ve had sharks in an underwater lab, a grocery store, a river, sand, and snow, as well as toxic sharks and ghost sharks. So what could possibly be left to do with sharks that hasn’t been done before? Take the concept of putting our sharp-finned friends in a plane and mix that in a blender with a disaster flick premise to serve you No Way Up from Rlje Films.
A flock of birds fly into the engine of a plane carrying a small group of people to Cabo, causing it to nosedive into the ocean. Too bad this plane was not piloted by Sully Sullenberger to help with a safe landing. Due to the initial impact of hitting the water or straight up drowning, most of the passengers are killed in the descent; especially one unfortunate soul who shows why you should not head to the bathroom when...
A flock of birds fly into the engine of a plane carrying a small group of people to Cabo, causing it to nosedive into the ocean. Too bad this plane was not piloted by Sully Sullenberger to help with a safe landing. Due to the initial impact of hitting the water or straight up drowning, most of the passengers are killed in the descent; especially one unfortunate soul who shows why you should not head to the bathroom when...
- 2/16/2024
- by Geof Capodanno
- bloody-disgusting.com
Phoebe Tonkin is to star in and executive produce a new Australian TV crime drama series, “The Dark Lake,” based on a novel by Sarah Bailey.
The series is to be produced by Brouhaha Entertainment, the Australia-u.K. outfit headed by veteran producers Gabrielle Tana, Troy Lum and Andrew Mason. The company recently delivered Netflix’s Brisbane set “Boy Swallows Universe,” in which Tonkin also stars.
Production and financing details were not disclosed and the series has not revealed a director or a broadcast or streaming partnership.
The story follows Gemma (portrayed by Tonkin) as she is forced to confront the secrets of her past when assigned to the murder of her high school nemesis in her small and tight-knit hometown. Through law enforcement, Gemma anchors herself to the dichotomy of right and wrong, in an effort to redeem her own deeply compromised decisions.
“The series investigates the moral workings...
The series is to be produced by Brouhaha Entertainment, the Australia-u.K. outfit headed by veteran producers Gabrielle Tana, Troy Lum and Andrew Mason. The company recently delivered Netflix’s Brisbane set “Boy Swallows Universe,” in which Tonkin also stars.
Production and financing details were not disclosed and the series has not revealed a director or a broadcast or streaming partnership.
The story follows Gemma (portrayed by Tonkin) as she is forced to confront the secrets of her past when assigned to the murder of her high school nemesis in her small and tight-knit hometown. Through law enforcement, Gemma anchors herself to the dichotomy of right and wrong, in an effort to redeem her own deeply compromised decisions.
“The series investigates the moral workings...
- 2/6/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
It’s Sharks on a Plane in the upcoming No Way Up from Altitude Films, and the official trailer for the “high concept combination of disaster movie and survival thriller” has arrived.
We don’t yet have a release date for this one, but it’s expected sometime in 2024.
In No Way Up, “Characters from very different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they’re travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean.
“The stricken airliner comes to rest perilously close to the edge of a bottomless ravine with the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an air pocket. With their air supply rapidly running out, a nightmare fight for survival ensues as dangers from all sides hone-in on them.”
Sophia McIntosh, Colm Meaney, Phyllis Logan, Grace Nettle and Will Attenborough star.
Claudio Fäh directed No Way Up, written by Andy Mayson.
What’s most surprising about the trailer for...
We don’t yet have a release date for this one, but it’s expected sometime in 2024.
In No Way Up, “Characters from very different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they’re travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean.
“The stricken airliner comes to rest perilously close to the edge of a bottomless ravine with the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an air pocket. With their air supply rapidly running out, a nightmare fight for survival ensues as dangers from all sides hone-in on them.”
Sophia McIntosh, Colm Meaney, Phyllis Logan, Grace Nettle and Will Attenborough star.
Claudio Fäh directed No Way Up, written by Andy Mayson.
What’s most surprising about the trailer for...
- 12/7/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Kim Petras is kicking off her big tour!
The 31-year-old “Unholy” superstar formally began her Feed the Beast World Tour on Wednesday night (September 27) at Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas.
Entering the stage concealed in an iron maiden, Kim launched into “Feed The Beast” before performing “King of Hearts” and her big hit, “Unholy.”
Keep reading to find out more…
Split into five distinct sections based on the story of Dante’s Inferno and helmed by director Will Baker and choreographers Brian and Scott Nicholson, the show covered Kim’s discography and her greatest hits, including a whole section dedicated to her EP Slut Pop and her Halloween-themed mixtape Turn Off The Light.
At one point, she even stabbed herself with her microphone while singing to a mysterious man from a bed on the stage, revealed to be a pre-taped, masculine version of Kim in a hyper-realistic silicone body suit!
The...
The 31-year-old “Unholy” superstar formally began her Feed the Beast World Tour on Wednesday night (September 27) at Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas.
Entering the stage concealed in an iron maiden, Kim launched into “Feed The Beast” before performing “King of Hearts” and her big hit, “Unholy.”
Keep reading to find out more…
Split into five distinct sections based on the story of Dante’s Inferno and helmed by director Will Baker and choreographers Brian and Scott Nicholson, the show covered Kim’s discography and her greatest hits, including a whole section dedicated to her EP Slut Pop and her Halloween-themed mixtape Turn Off The Light.
At one point, she even stabbed herself with her microphone while singing to a mysterious man from a bed on the stage, revealed to be a pre-taped, masculine version of Kim in a hyper-realistic silicone body suit!
The...
- 9/28/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Stars: Chloë Crump, Laura Bailey, Karen Swan, Clara Emanuel | Written by Matthew R. Ford | Directed by Daniel Alexander
Emily Gale has been having nightmares which may be related to her mother’s death. Her psychiatrist Dr. North (Laura Bailey) isn’t much help, especially when it comes to the biggest question of all, the identity of Dorothy, whom characters in her dreams mention.
And then, as if by magic, she finds something among her mother’s belongings. It’s a notebook belonging to her grandmother Dorothy Gale (Karen Swan; Guilty Pleasures). And, as it turns out, she’s still alive although confined to a nursing home. Emily makes arrangements to visit, but that may raise more questions than it answers.
Director Daniel Alexander also provided the story that Matthew R. Ford turned into a script that shows a side of Oz that I haven’t seen since Walter Murch traumatized kids,...
Emily Gale has been having nightmares which may be related to her mother’s death. Her psychiatrist Dr. North (Laura Bailey) isn’t much help, especially when it comes to the biggest question of all, the identity of Dorothy, whom characters in her dreams mention.
And then, as if by magic, she finds something among her mother’s belongings. It’s a notebook belonging to her grandmother Dorothy Gale (Karen Swan; Guilty Pleasures). And, as it turns out, she’s still alive although confined to a nursing home. Emily makes arrangements to visit, but that may raise more questions than it answers.
Director Daniel Alexander also provided the story that Matthew R. Ford turned into a script that shows a side of Oz that I haven’t seen since Walter Murch traumatized kids,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Ever since he worked on The Matrix franchise more than 20 years ago, director Kimble Rendall has entertained the possibility of using a game engine to make an entire film. That is now possible due to technology like Unreal Engine, which Rendall hopes to use to make his next project Age of Beasts, intended as both a film and a game. Unreal Engine developer Epic Games has given the filmmaker, best known for feature Bait 3D and Guardians of the...
The post Kimble Rendall readies ‘Age of Beasts’, both a film and a game appeared first on If Magazine.
The post Kimble Rendall readies ‘Age of Beasts’, both a film and a game appeared first on If Magazine.
- 8/7/2023
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws left an indelible mark on cinema upon release in 1975, ushering in the summer blockbuster as we know it. Like its many taglines, Jaws also made people afraid to go into the water thanks to a newfound fear of man-eating sharks. And the film’s massive box office success created a tsunami of copycats, launching the “sharksploitation” subgenre.
But emulating Jaws only goes so far, and the subgenre has been forced to constantly find inventive new ways to reimagine the shark horror movie. One surefire but cheeky way to stand out from an increasingly crowded subgenre is to add novelty to the concept, often by altering the setting. If people are too afraid to go into the water, the shark should go to the people.
Luckily, there’s no shortage of weird, wacky settings that dramatically alter the formula…
Here are eleven of the most outrageous settings in shark horror movies.
But emulating Jaws only goes so far, and the subgenre has been forced to constantly find inventive new ways to reimagine the shark horror movie. One surefire but cheeky way to stand out from an increasingly crowded subgenre is to add novelty to the concept, often by altering the setting. If people are too afraid to go into the water, the shark should go to the people.
Luckily, there’s no shortage of weird, wacky settings that dramatically alter the formula…
Here are eleven of the most outrageous settings in shark horror movies.
- 7/26/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The 35th edition of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is officially underway, marking the return of the annual fan-favorite weeklong shark celebration. Shark Week began in 1988 as a fun means of educating audiences on the aquatic predator, counteracting the negative representations of sharks in popular culture that began with the seminal aquatic horror feature Jaws (now available to stream on Peacock).
Jaws didn’t just make people afraid to go into the water; its massive blockbuster success inspired an enduring wave of “sharksploitation” horror that’s become a summer mainstay. Naturally, in celebration of Shark Week, this week’s streaming picks bring the aquatic terror. Shudder’s new documentary Sharksploitation breaks down this subgenre further, packed with insights from filmmakers and scientists alike, for further viewing to complete your Shark Week watchlists.
Whether you’re in the mood for killer shark horror dripping with cheese or genuinely unsettling Jaws riffs,...
Jaws didn’t just make people afraid to go into the water; its massive blockbuster success inspired an enduring wave of “sharksploitation” horror that’s become a summer mainstay. Naturally, in celebration of Shark Week, this week’s streaming picks bring the aquatic terror. Shudder’s new documentary Sharksploitation breaks down this subgenre further, packed with insights from filmmakers and scientists alike, for further viewing to complete your Shark Week watchlists.
Whether you’re in the mood for killer shark horror dripping with cheese or genuinely unsettling Jaws riffs,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Following the enormous critical and financial success in the local theaters, the release of “The Meg” in Chinese cinemas started a wave of similarly-produced creature features and animal-attack films to capitalize on the film's release. That has led to a steady stream of cheap, goofy creature features that remains popular churning out titles to this day which includes this effort from 2021 that takes its influence from the Australian film “Bait” from 2012.
Watch Escape of Shark on iQIYI
Trying to get past a personal tragedy, Wang Lei (Yu Berlin) attempts to use his position as a waiter in a Thai resort to help pay back his boss Su (Wang Xiaolong) for what happened to his intended marriage to his niece. When the area throws a party for entrepreneur Sang Ni (Yag Yubin) who's looking to merge the property into his company, the attempts to keep guests Lisa (Zhang Xinyuan), Xiao Lin...
Watch Escape of Shark on iQIYI
Trying to get past a personal tragedy, Wang Lei (Yu Berlin) attempts to use his position as a waiter in a Thai resort to help pay back his boss Su (Wang Xiaolong) for what happened to his intended marriage to his niece. When the area throws a party for entrepreneur Sang Ni (Yag Yubin) who's looking to merge the property into his company, the attempts to keep guests Lisa (Zhang Xinyuan), Xiao Lin...
- 7/22/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Shudder is celebrating the shark horror movie this summer with brand new Shudder Original Documentary Sharksploitation, which is swimming our way July 21, 2023.
The doc will be available in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.
Exclusively watch the official trailer for Sharksploitation below!
In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.
Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon was just unleashed...
The doc will be available in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.
Exclusively watch the official trailer for Sharksploitation below!
In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.
Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon was just unleashed...
- 7/18/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In 2022, Kim Petras faced something every artist dreads: a series of leaks that left her album in jeopardy. "I'm devastated idk how all of this happened and I just wanna quit," Petras tweeted at the time, Billboard reported. Nearly a year later, "Feed the Beast" is here. Petras's first major-label album was released on June 23. That same week, she announced a 34-date world tour to promote the album, starting this fall.
"It's really like three albums combined," Petras told Popsugar in a June interview while discussing her partnership with the Motorola Razr+. "Someone leaked [my previous album], so that was annoying." From the ashes came inspiration, though. Petras's A&r representative helped her move through the "annoying" situation, she recounted, advising her, "'You gotta go feed the beast and make more music. Do what you do best.' And that's exactly what I did."
The setback turned out to be worth it. "I...
"It's really like three albums combined," Petras told Popsugar in a June interview while discussing her partnership with the Motorola Razr+. "Someone leaked [my previous album], so that was annoying." From the ashes came inspiration, though. Petras's A&r representative helped her move through the "annoying" situation, she recounted, advising her, "'You gotta go feed the beast and make more music. Do what you do best.' And that's exactly what I did."
The setback turned out to be worth it. "I...
- 6/27/2023
- by Lindsay Kimble
- Popsugar.com
The wait is over: Kim Petras has released her debut studio album, Feed the Beast. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
The album features several of Petras’ recent singles, including “Alone” featuring Nicki Minaj (which sampled Alice DeeJay’s “Better Off Alone”), January’s “brrr,” and her history-making Sam Smith duet “Unholy.” Banks also makes an appearance on “Bait.”
Petras announced the release on social media with a noir photo of a medieval-looking sword propped up against a large stone: “The story begins,” she wrote along with the post. Although the German singer has shared one full-length mixtape and a couple of compilation albums, this will mark her first-ever proper LP.
Feed the Beast follows Petras’ 2022 EP Slut Pop, and she’s set to perform at Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal this August ahead of her 34-date world tour. Tickets for all of her upcoming shows are available here.
The album features several of Petras’ recent singles, including “Alone” featuring Nicki Minaj (which sampled Alice DeeJay’s “Better Off Alone”), January’s “brrr,” and her history-making Sam Smith duet “Unholy.” Banks also makes an appearance on “Bait.”
Petras announced the release on social media with a noir photo of a medieval-looking sword propped up against a large stone: “The story begins,” she wrote along with the post. Although the German singer has shared one full-length mixtape and a couple of compilation albums, this will mark her first-ever proper LP.
Feed the Beast follows Petras’ 2022 EP Slut Pop, and she’s set to perform at Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal this August ahead of her 34-date world tour. Tickets for all of her upcoming shows are available here.
- 6/23/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
In addition to the survival thriller Quicksand, premiering on July 14, Shudder has just announced another new Shudder Original offering for July 2023: Sharksploitation!
Sharksploitation is a brand new Shudder Original Documentary, and it’ll begin streaming on Shudder on July 21 in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.
In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.
Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon...
Sharksploitation is a brand new Shudder Original Documentary, and it’ll begin streaming on Shudder on July 21 in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.
In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.
Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon...
- 6/22/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: WME has signed filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) for representation in all areas.
A true multi-hyphenate, who has worked as a director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and composer over the course of his career, Jenkin most recently wrote and directed the folk horror film Enys Men, which was picked up for distribution in North America by Neon following its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight world premiere.
Starring Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine, the experimental feature shot on 16mm follows a wildlife volunteer living on an otherwise uninhabited island off the Cornish coast in 1973, as her daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.
Jenkin previously broke out with his debut feature Bait, which won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer in...
A true multi-hyphenate, who has worked as a director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and composer over the course of his career, Jenkin most recently wrote and directed the folk horror film Enys Men, which was picked up for distribution in North America by Neon following its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight world premiere.
Starring Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine, the experimental feature shot on 16mm follows a wildlife volunteer living on an otherwise uninhabited island off the Cornish coast in 1973, as her daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.
Jenkin previously broke out with his debut feature Bait, which won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer in...
- 6/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC is making a film about a young British aid worker killed in the line of fire in Ukraine.
Hell Jumper sits on a six-strong Sheffield Doc Fest slate that also features shows commemorating anniversaries of the Hiroshima bomb and the miners’ strike.
Hell Jumper tells the story of Chris Parry and friends, a group of twenty-somethings who headed to Ukraine in a white van and hooked up with a rag-tag bunch of civilian ‘evacuators’ to help people escape their homes. Once there, the group’s missions grew riskier and riskier while they took to TikTok and Instagram to show footage of their daring rescues, with Parry killed trying to save an elderly woman trapped in her home.
The doc from Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation and BAFTA-winning Prison helmer Paddy Wivell makes use of self-shot material, social media and video diaries. BBC Head of Documentary Commissioning Clare Sillery...
Hell Jumper sits on a six-strong Sheffield Doc Fest slate that also features shows commemorating anniversaries of the Hiroshima bomb and the miners’ strike.
Hell Jumper tells the story of Chris Parry and friends, a group of twenty-somethings who headed to Ukraine in a white van and hooked up with a rag-tag bunch of civilian ‘evacuators’ to help people escape their homes. Once there, the group’s missions grew riskier and riskier while they took to TikTok and Instagram to show footage of their daring rescues, with Parry killed trying to save an elderly woman trapped in her home.
The doc from Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation and BAFTA-winning Prison helmer Paddy Wivell makes use of self-shot material, social media and video diaries. BBC Head of Documentary Commissioning Clare Sillery...
- 6/15/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
When it comes to naming the best shark movies, there's no denying the iconic status of Steven Spielberg's Jaws. But if you've already watched the adventures of Chief Brody and his toothy nemesis countless times, it's time to dive into some fin-tastic alternatives.
From deep-sea terror to B-movie brilliance, we've compiled a list of 10 best shark movies that will keep you on the edge of your seat. So grab your chum bucket, hold onto your limbs, and let's explore the depths of these toothy tales!
Warner Bros. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Who needs a bigger boat when you can have genetically enhanced sharks? This thrilling and surprisingly intelligent flick takes you to an underwater research facility where a group of scientists, including Samuel L. Jackson, battle super-smart sharks with an appetite for chaos.
Dreamworks Shark Night 3-D (2011)
Get ready for a wild ride as a group of friends head to...
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- 6/10/2023
- by Kimberley Elizabeth
Kim Petras is ready to eat. The singer shared the tracklist of her debut album, Feed the Beast, on Monday evening alongside an image of a sharp sword resting against jagged rocks. The new record will arrive on June 23 after a series of starts and stops over the past few years.
Ahead of the release date announcement earlier this month, the singer posted a cryptic medieval mood board. The photo set included a grayscale image of a knight’s helmet, a metal shield, and three different swords. “The story begins on June 23rd,...
Ahead of the release date announcement earlier this month, the singer posted a cryptic medieval mood board. The photo set included a grayscale image of a knight’s helmet, a metal shield, and three different swords. “The story begins on June 23rd,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Enys Men Photo: Steve Tanner
Following the unprecedented success of Bait, a drama with shades of folk horror set in a Cornish fishing village, British director Mark Jenkin returns with another Cornish set horror, Enys Men. Set in 1973, on an unpopulated island off the Cornish coast, it sees a sole volunteer (Mary Woodvine) become troubled when she begins recording data on an unfamiliar flower. Struggling to discern the difference between reality and nightmare, she comes to question whether the island itself is sentient.
Shot on 16mm film, Jenkin continues to show an awareness of and interest in the form. He majestically contrasts the shades of folk horror in his feature début with Enys Men’s haunting and ambiguous, existential, even metaphysical horror. Presenting more questions than answers, the director avoids the clarity of themes and ideas that gave Bait a political commentary in post-Brexit Britain, and instead retreats into the abstract.
Following the unprecedented success of Bait, a drama with shades of folk horror set in a Cornish fishing village, British director Mark Jenkin returns with another Cornish set horror, Enys Men. Set in 1973, on an unpopulated island off the Cornish coast, it sees a sole volunteer (Mary Woodvine) become troubled when she begins recording data on an unfamiliar flower. Struggling to discern the difference between reality and nightmare, she comes to question whether the island itself is sentient.
Shot on 16mm film, Jenkin continues to show an awareness of and interest in the form. He majestically contrasts the shades of folk horror in his feature début with Enys Men’s haunting and ambiguous, existential, even metaphysical horror. Presenting more questions than answers, the director avoids the clarity of themes and ideas that gave Bait a political commentary in post-Brexit Britain, and instead retreats into the abstract.
- 5/9/2023
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"I can either pull focus, or I can move the camera." Opening in select art house theaters this week is Enys Men, a one-of-a-kind, chilling experimental horror film made by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkins. It's his follow-up to the festival hit Bait (which is finally getting a US release also this wek) and it premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year. In honor of the US opening this weekend, Neon has revealed a 14-minute behind-the-scenes featurette for the film. Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower slowly turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. The film stars Mary Woodvine as the volunteer working on the island, with a small cast including Edward Rowe and Flo Crowe. This is a fascinating inside look at Jenkins' process,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The title of Mark Jenkin’s elegant psychological drama, Enys Men, is Cornish for Stone Island, a reference to the isolated landscape where a woman identified in the credits only as the Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) lives alone in a vine-covered cottage. A monolithic stone nearby, in a roughly human shape and framed in the gateway to the cottage, alludes to the island legend that Jenkin has said he learned in childhood, of girls turned to stone for singing on the Sabbath. Despite its touches of folk horror, though, the film’s ambience is more haunting than terrifying. Past and present are fluid and the woman’s memory and imagination summon people who could not possibly be there. Defying any logical narrative, the film relies on poetic images and associations. It suggests that the most frightening thing in the world can be in your own mind.
Every day, the woman checks...
Every day, the woman checks...
- 3/30/2023
- by Caryn James
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The title is Cornish for “Stone Island,” a forbidding slab of land located off the coast of England’s southern tip. The year is 1973 — the same horror-cinema annus mirabilis of The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now, for those of you playing along at home. The only current resident seems to be a woman (Mary Woodvine), who is never named; she’s simply referred to as “The Volunteer” in the end credits. Every day, she treks out past the lighthouse and the stone statue that stands in for some vaguely hinted-at collective grief (and which,...
- 3/30/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
In theaters this Friday, March 31st (with early access screenings on Wednesday) from Neon is Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men, set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Bloody Disgusting has a haunting exclusive clip in which some sort of artifact appears to be the catalyst to madness.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.
Bloody Disgusting has a haunting exclusive clip in which some sort of artifact appears to be the catalyst to madness.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.
- 3/29/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
While British folk horror has people frightened with visions of isolated Scottish islands, forests that run down its spine, to me, Cornwall has always held particular creepy fascination. Maybe it's that this lonely peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic feels like it slips between worlds; maybe it's the connection to the Arthurian legends or stories of sea monsters or old abandoned tin mines. It's beautiful and desolate and has its own language. Mark Jenkin knows all of this; he's been making films about his home county for two decades. But it was his 2019 social drama Bait (you can read my review) that got him noticed on the international scene. He returns to Cornwall...
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- 3/29/2023
- Screen Anarchy
There’s a palpable tactility to the 16mm films of Mark Jenkin, the Cornish director whose Bait and Enys Men are boldly edited, transportive journeys with a sense of impressionistic storytelling that feels radical in today’s era. In his 1973-set feature, which premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, Mary Woodvine plays The Volunteer, a woman immersed in studying the environment on an isolated island and starts experiencing strange happenings as it’s related to the history of her location, evolving into hallucinatory Cornish folk horror.
Ahead of Enys Men‘s U.S. bow, which is paired with Bait‘s long-overdue release, I spoke with Jenkin about how he trusts his audience, why his films wouldn’t be considered experimental in the 1970s, the influence of Jerzy Skolimowski, how nature doesn’t care about humanity, crafting his Sight and Sound top 10 list, and his experience with Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.
Ahead of Enys Men‘s U.S. bow, which is paired with Bait‘s long-overdue release, I spoke with Jenkin about how he trusts his audience, why his films wouldn’t be considered experimental in the 1970s, the influence of Jerzy Skolimowski, how nature doesn’t care about humanity, crafting his Sight and Sound top 10 list, and his experience with Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.
- 3/29/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The biggest new release for the week is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which brings various monsters from the long-running property to the big screen beginning on Thursday night, and it’s joined by several brand new horror movies in the coming days.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
Up first, BayView Entertainment and Vipco have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.
In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
Up first, BayView Entertainment and Vipco have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.
In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.
- 3/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neon is bringing Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men to theaters this Friday, but Bloody Disgusting is giving away (20) free pairs of tickets to see the film with the director in attendance on Saturday, April 1st at 7:30 Pm at the Nuart Theatre.
All you have to do is Email rsvp@neonrated.com to RSVP. Winners will be picked at random and contacted directly.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace,...
All you have to do is Email rsvp@neonrated.com to RSVP. Winners will be picked at random and contacted directly.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
In theaters this Friday, March 31st (with early access screenings on Wednesday) from Neon is Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men, which Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive batch of new images from.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the...
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the...
- 3/28/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Although he is rightly judged as being in the vanguard of British independent cinema, Mark Jenkin nonetheless seems out of place in such company. Unlike his contemporaries—Peter Strickland, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, and Jonathan Glazer, among others—he is a strict formalist, creating expressions through the rhythms and combinations of images and sounds rather than through conventional narratives or theatrical gestures. And what makes him yet more unique, both in the UK and internationally, is the breadth of his creative abilities: he writes, directs, shoots, edits, produces, and scores each of his films, and sometimes even develops the film himself, as with his BAFTA-winning debut feature, “Bait.” Like “Bait,” his latest work, “Enys Men,” is rather difficult to categorize.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’: Director Mark Jenkin Talks ‘Bait,’ Robert Bresson & His Upcoming Time Travel Movie at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’: Director Mark Jenkin Talks ‘Bait,’ Robert Bresson & His Upcoming Time Travel Movie at The Playlist.
- 3/28/2023
- by Oliver Weir
- The Playlist
At long last, Mark Jenkin‘s buzzy sophomore feature “Enys Men” gets a US theatrical release later this month. The movie made waves with its British folk horror trappings and 16mm visuals at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Now, to build off that buzz, Neon readies Jenkin’s debut feature “Bait” for a theatrical release, too.
Read More: ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes]
Like “Enys Men,” “Bait” shares a specific maritime sensibility, and uses its black-and-white 16mm camera to track a troubled fisherman’s reckoning with his family’s history and his home harbor gradually becoming a tourist trap.
Continue reading ‘Bait’ Trailer: Neon Releases Mark Jenkin’s Feature Debut In Select Theaters On March 31 at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes]
Like “Enys Men,” “Bait” shares a specific maritime sensibility, and uses its black-and-white 16mm camera to track a troubled fisherman’s reckoning with his family’s history and his home harbor gradually becoming a tourist trap.
Continue reading ‘Bait’ Trailer: Neon Releases Mark Jenkin’s Feature Debut In Select Theaters On March 31 at The Playlist.
- 3/24/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s next is the folk horror film Enys Men, and Neon has announced that they’ll be bringing the film to select theaters on March 31, 2023.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Check out the trailer below.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the original story...
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Check out the trailer below.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the original story...
- 2/13/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
MGM+ is shoring up its original content selection with the pickup of a new fantasy-adventure comedy, The Portable Door, an MGM+ original film that will be coming exclusively to the U.S. market in April.
The movie stars multi-time Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill and Patrick Gibson, joining two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, and Sophie Wilde.
The award-winning Jeffrey Walker directed the film, which is adapted by Leon Ford (Griff the Invisible) from Tom Holt's popular seven-book fantasy series.
"The movie centers on Paul Carpenter (Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Wilde), lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co., and become increasingly aware that their employers are anything but conventional," the logline reads.
"Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices,...
The movie stars multi-time Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill and Patrick Gibson, joining two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, and Sophie Wilde.
The award-winning Jeffrey Walker directed the film, which is adapted by Leon Ford (Griff the Invisible) from Tom Holt's popular seven-book fantasy series.
"The movie centers on Paul Carpenter (Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Wilde), lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co., and become increasingly aware that their employers are anything but conventional," the logline reads.
"Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells (Waltz), the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
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The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the crop of titles that will vie for attention in the 2022 edition of the event’s official competition.
The eight titles span a broad selection of genres and geographies, with 13 countries represented across a range including political dramas, folk horror tales and the story of war-time displacement.
The list includes period drama Corsage, which won Vicky Krieps the Un Certain Regard best actress award in Cannes, Enys Men, Mark Jenkin’s haunting follow up to his acclaimed directorial debut Bait, and Godland, Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic epic that was critically lauded on the Croisette.
The eight films in the Lff’s official competition are as follows:
Argentina, 1985 – Santiago MitreBrother — Clement VirgoCorsage — Les Damnes Ne Pleurent Pas — Fyzal BoulifaEnys Men — Mark JenkinGodland — Hlynur PálmasonNezouh — Soudade KaadanSaint Omer — Alice Diop
The winner of the best film award will...
The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the crop of titles that will vie for attention in the 2022 edition of the event’s official competition.
The eight titles span a broad selection of genres and geographies, with 13 countries represented across a range including political dramas, folk horror tales and the story of war-time displacement.
The list includes period drama Corsage, which won Vicky Krieps the Un Certain Regard best actress award in Cannes, Enys Men, Mark Jenkin’s haunting follow up to his acclaimed directorial debut Bait, and Godland, Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic epic that was critically lauded on the Croisette.
The eight films in the Lff’s official competition are as follows:
Argentina, 1985 – Santiago MitreBrother — Clement VirgoCorsage — Les Damnes Ne Pleurent Pas — Fyzal BoulifaEnys Men — Mark JenkinGodland — Hlynur PálmasonNezouh — Soudade KaadanSaint Omer — Alice Diop
The winner of the best film award will...
- 8/25/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Perched on the cliff of a windswept island off the coast of Cornwall is a shock of white flowers. Every day a woman studies their petals in religious silence before heading home and jotting notes in a diary. Date. Daily temperature. Observations. The year is 1973, the month April, and that’s about as much contextual information Mark Jenkin’s sinuous, entrancing Enys Men parcels out. We don’t know who the woman is, what or who those notes are for, when she got to the island, when she’ll leave. Penned by Jenkin, its script credits her as “The Volunteer,” whose daily pilgrimages to the cliff feel like a vocation, an act of faith.
Brimming with all manner of visions, Enys Men maintains this otherworldly tone throughout. Pegging it as a folk horror feels both apt and somewhat restrictive. The dread Jenkin conjures does not need scars or thrills to...
Brimming with all manner of visions, Enys Men maintains this otherworldly tone throughout. Pegging it as a folk horror feels both apt and somewhat restrictive. The dread Jenkin conjures does not need scars or thrills to...
- 5/28/2022
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
A central image in Mark Jenkin’s weathered, rough-hewn, rocky folk horror “Enys Men” is of a weathered, rough-hewn rock. A menhir that looks like it’s been orphaned from Stonehenge stands perched on a blustery hillside on the eponymous isle. And just as many such ancient monoliths remain somewhat inexplicable, this striking cinematic anomaly appears as though excavated from the annals of filmmaking history, with the viewer playing the befuddled archaeologist faced with an uncanny artefact from a lost civilization. Shame that sometimes, such discoveries turn out to be more impressive for how they look than what they mean.
Shot by Jenkin himself, who also writes, edits and scores, the hand-processed, richly saturated “Enys Men” is warm to the eye and livid with gorgeous 16mm grain, glorying in a scratchy, imprecisely post-synced soundtrack. It follows — or trundles after, in ever-decreasing circles — a woman known only as The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine...
Shot by Jenkin himself, who also writes, edits and scores, the hand-processed, richly saturated “Enys Men” is warm to the eye and livid with gorgeous 16mm grain, glorying in a scratchy, imprecisely post-synced soundtrack. It follows — or trundles after, in ever-decreasing circles — a woman known only as The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine...
- 5/27/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Notebook is covering the Cannes Film Festival with an ongoing correspondence between critics Leonardo Goi and Lawrence Garcia, and editor Daniel Kasman.Enys Men.Dear Danny and Lawrence,I can’t believe we’re halfway through the circus already. Time has a way of slipping out of bounds when one’s in Cannes: it’s been six days since we landed here, though in my currently starved and sleep-deprived state, that feels like a whole month already. I’m spending my Saturday night typing away in a semi-deserted press room, while you two must be currently queuing for Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. I’d have loved to join you—and I look forward to hearing your impressions in your next dispatches—but I felt as though I needed a break to sort out my thoughts on three titles I’ve caught earlier this week and have been mulling over here since.
- 5/23/2022
- MUBI
Steeped in atmosphere and the wild crashing sea around the Cornish coast, Mark Jenkin delivers a kind of folk supernatural horror tale delving into local historical myths.
After his previous debut feature Bait, which was made on a minuscule budget, Jenkin has a bit more cash to play around with but not much.
The title refers to the name of a wild and ravaged island off the mainland - Enys means stone and men (pronounced main in Cornish) stands for island.
It’s practically one person show for actress Mary Woodbine, who has been sent there to document rare plants which also have historical resonances.
It is shot on deliberately grainy 16mm film (Jenkin is also editor and hand processes much of his own footage) giving it a feel of a home movie with a distinctive and hypnotic soundtrack, which reveals the deserted island’s past as a mining and sea-faring community.
After his previous debut feature Bait, which was made on a minuscule budget, Jenkin has a bit more cash to play around with but not much.
The title refers to the name of a wild and ravaged island off the mainland - Enys means stone and men (pronounced main in Cornish) stands for island.
It’s practically one person show for actress Mary Woodbine, who has been sent there to document rare plants which also have historical resonances.
It is shot on deliberately grainy 16mm film (Jenkin is also editor and hand processes much of his own footage) giving it a feel of a home movie with a distinctive and hypnotic soundtrack, which reveals the deserted island’s past as a mining and sea-faring community.
- 5/22/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Bait,” British filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s breakout feature, could well be considered a horror movie. Set in a quaint little fishing enclave off the Cornish coast, where the ship decks are rickety and the townhouses’ whitewash ever-peeling, the knotty fear of loss is ever-present: of history, of possession, of tradition, of heritage, of liberty. It manifests formally in the deep chiaroscuro of Jenkin’s monochrome images, shot on 16mm film, richly textural, and ever cast in shadow; in the distorted sound mix, voices are heard as if captured through a shoddy synthesizer, like painful memories catching up to the present.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes] at The Playlist.
- 5/20/2022
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Mark Jenkin’s 2019 film Bait had the rare distinction of being a genuine out-of-the-blue discovery, featuring heavily on UK critics’ year-best lists after a modest arthouse release by the BFI. The black-and-white film’s experimental style was emphasized in all its press coverage, nodding to avant-garde auteurs like Stan Brakhage, Derek Jarman and Guy Maddin — all directors who are interested in the literal grain of film and video. Throw in post-synch sound, and you have a film more likely to screen to two people and a dog at a smoky underground 1960s cine-club than win a BAFTA.
For all its formal intricacies, though, Bait had a very traditional narrative, being the story of a Cornish fisherman who sees his village becoming gentrified after selling his house to a couple of rich out-of-towners. Enys Men,...
For all its formal intricacies, though, Bait had a very traditional narrative, being the story of a Cornish fisherman who sees his village becoming gentrified after selling his house to a couple of rich out-of-towners. Enys Men,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Bait director Mark Jenkin delivers another eerie prose-poem of a film, about a isolated woman lost inside her own mind
With his breakthrough feature, Bait, in 2019, Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin showed himself a bold experimentalist, the creator of a daringly strange expressionist cinema. It was a minimalist piece of work in black and white with the aesthetic of a silent film or even a home movie – shot on 16mm and developed by hand.
Now he has refined and developed this unique, stripped-down style for an eerie prose-poem of a movie about loneliness: Enys Men – the last word is pronounced “mane”, and in Cornish means “stone island”. It has the same almost primitive texture: the film itself feels like a hard, wizened, weatherbeaten object, like those seen on screen. Long stretches will go past entirely wordlessly, with ambient sea-spray sound and closeups on stones or cups, or the dial of the...
With his breakthrough feature, Bait, in 2019, Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin showed himself a bold experimentalist, the creator of a daringly strange expressionist cinema. It was a minimalist piece of work in black and white with the aesthetic of a silent film or even a home movie – shot on 16mm and developed by hand.
Now he has refined and developed this unique, stripped-down style for an eerie prose-poem of a movie about loneliness: Enys Men – the last word is pronounced “mane”, and in Cornish means “stone island”. It has the same almost primitive texture: the film itself feels like a hard, wizened, weatherbeaten object, like those seen on screen. Long stretches will go past entirely wordlessly, with ambient sea-spray sound and closeups on stones or cups, or the dial of the...
- 5/20/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights.
BFI Distribution has secured UK and Ireland rights to Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights. Neon acquired North American rights earlier this week.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe.
It is produced by Denzil Monk...
BFI Distribution has secured UK and Ireland rights to Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights. Neon acquired North American rights earlier this week.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe.
It is produced by Denzil Monk...
- 5/20/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights.
BFI Distribution has secured UK rights to Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights. Neon acquired North American rights earlier this week.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe.
It is produced by Denzil Monk for Bosena and co-financed by Film4.
BFI Distribution has secured UK rights to Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights. Neon acquired North American rights earlier this week.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe.
It is produced by Denzil Monk for Bosena and co-financed by Film4.
- 5/20/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures represents worldwide rights.
Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men has been picked up for UK distribution by BFI Distribution.
The Protagonist Pictures title was also recently acquired for North American release by Neon.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe. It’s produced by Denzil Monk for Bosena and co-financed by Film4.
Mark Jenkin’s psychological horror and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere Enys Men has been picked up for UK distribution by BFI Distribution.
The Protagonist Pictures title was also recently acquired for North American release by Neon.
Enys Men is Jenkin’s follow-up to his Bafta-winning debut Bait – also released by BFI Distribution.
The title is set on a remote island in 1973, where a wildlife volunteer finds her reality stars spiralling into a nightmare. The cast is led by Bait stars Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe. It’s produced by Denzil Monk for Bosena and co-financed by Film4.
- 5/20/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Shudder Acquires Official Fantasia Festival Selection Moloch: "Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired rights to Dutch director Nico van den Brink’s directorial debut Moloch. The film, an official selection of the Fantasia International Film Festival, will be available exclusively on Shudder in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, July 21.
“Moloch is a bold and thrilling new folk horror that is sure to chill Shudder members this summer,” said Shudder general manager Craig Engler.
Added Nico van den Brink, ”I’m extremely excited to be working with Shudder in bringing Moloch to horror-lovers worldwide. The film will have a wonderful home there. I know we have some very creepy stories to tell in the Netherlands and I'm really looking forward to inviting Shudder's diverse and international audience into the unique world of local Dutch folklore.
“Moloch is a bold and thrilling new folk horror that is sure to chill Shudder members this summer,” said Shudder general manager Craig Engler.
Added Nico van den Brink, ”I’m extremely excited to be working with Shudder in bringing Moloch to horror-lovers worldwide. The film will have a wonderful home there. I know we have some very creepy stories to tell in the Netherlands and I'm really looking forward to inviting Shudder's diverse and international audience into the unique world of local Dutch folklore.
- 5/19/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Kirill Serebrennikov, the director of Cannes competition title “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and the only Russian director with a film in this year’s official festival, on Thursday called for world governments to lift sanctions on a Russian oligarch and film financier who has been reported to be helping the Ukraine war effort.
The oligarch is Roman Abramovich, who is behind the film fund Kinoprime that helped to finance both “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and Serebrennikov’s prior film “Petrov’s Flu,” among other Russian art-house films. Serebrennikov, who said he did not receive money from the state to make “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” defended Abramovich’s work as saying that the films he funds are not propaganda movies but are “rather the contrary.”
“We have to lift the sanctions against Abramovich,” the director said during his Cannes press conference. “He helps modern art, and he has for a long time now. He’s a real patron...
The oligarch is Roman Abramovich, who is behind the film fund Kinoprime that helped to finance both “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and Serebrennikov’s prior film “Petrov’s Flu,” among other Russian art-house films. Serebrennikov, who said he did not receive money from the state to make “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” defended Abramovich’s work as saying that the films he funds are not propaganda movies but are “rather the contrary.”
“We have to lift the sanctions against Abramovich,” the director said during his Cannes press conference. “He helps modern art, and he has for a long time now. He’s a real patron...
- 5/19/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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